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It is the very essence of intelligence to coordinate means with a view to a remote end, and to undertake what it does not feel absolutely sure of carrying out.

Henri Bergson

When we make the cerebral state the beginning of an action, and in no sense the condition of a perception, we place the perceived images of things outside the image of our body, and thus replace perception within the things themselves.
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Action Beginning Body Image Place State
Our laughter is always the laughter of a group.
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Group Laughter Ourselves
An absolute can only be given in an intuition, while all the rest has to do with analysis.
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Analyse Intuition Rest
The emotion felt by a man in the presence of nature certainly counts for something in the origin of religions.
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Emotion Feeling Nature Origin Presence Religion
Wherever anything lives, there is, open somewhere, a register in which time is being inscribed.
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Live Open Register Time
Genius is that which forces the inertia of humanity to learn.
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Force Genius Humanity Knowledge Learning
ACT as men of thought; THINK as men of action.
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Act Action Man Thinking
There is nothing [that] disarms us like laughter.
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Guard Laughter Ourselves
The only cure for vanity is laughter. And the only fault that’s laughable is vanity.
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Errors Laughter Mistake Vanity
To drive out the darkness, bring in the light.
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Darkness Drive Light
We regard intelligence as man’s main characteristic and we know that there is no superiority which intelligence cannot confer on us, no inferiority for which it cannot compensate.
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Character Compensation Intelligence Man
To perceive means to immobilize. To say this is to say that we seize, in the act of perception, something which outruns perception itself.
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Act Meaning Perception Talk
And I also see how this body influences external images: it gives back movement to them.
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Body Influence Movement Myself Return
We are free when our actions emanate from our total personality, when they express it, when they resemble it in the indefinable way a work of art sometimes does the artist.
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Action Artist Expression Freedom
For life is tendency, and the essence of a tendency is to develop in the form of a sheaf, creating, by its very growth, divergent directions among which its impetus is divided.
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Development Direction Essence Form Growth Life
The movement of the stream is distinct from the river bed, although it must adopt its winding course.
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Movement River Source Stream Wind

It is the very essence of intelligence to coordinate means with a view to a remote end, and to undertake what it does not feel absolutely sure of carrying out.

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